Contaminated

Jude 1:18-19  They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires. These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They follow their natural instincts because they do not have God’s Spirit in them.

Gordon Curley tells the story of a tribe in the jungle who were all falling sick. A missionary doctor went into the village to try and help them. He suspected, and soon discovered, that it was the contaminated water they were drinking that caused their sickness. To show the natives the missionary set up a table in the village, then using a microscope he showed them the contamination that was in the water.

Later that night when the village was quiet and everyone appeared to be asleep in bed, somebody broke into the missionaries offices and smashed the microscope.

For them, no microscope--no problem!

A lot of Christians seem to live by the same principle. They think that if they don’t listen to the Scriptures they won’t have to change the things in their lives that the world tells them is okay. No knowledge, no problem!

The problem for them is that God doesn’t work that way. If we allow the thoughts and actions of society to infiltrate our faith we are putting ourselves in severe danger. We can’t allow our faith to be contaminated by the thinking of society. When you stand before God on judgment day, God is not going to take account what everyone else said. He’s going to look at your life in light of Scripture, not what CNN, Fox News, or anybody else said was right.

Make sure your morals and lifestyle are based on God’s Word, not what somebody else says.

Today’s Readings: Isaiah 4,5; Psalm 115,116; Jude

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